The good news, as your post suggests, is that I think to a fairly great extent you can combat your own beliefs and change them. I think it involves thinking about what experiences you need to give yourself as well as combatting them consciously.

I agree with you wholeheartedly.

However after being cut off from university for a couple of months, I finally got my “own mind” back. So from now onwards the only belief I am willing to hear is that hardwork is the key to success.Beside, I think it’s unfair to admire people for something inherent in them. Instead, I believe people should be admired for what they have achieved that they did not have before. For instance just loving a person because they are good looking is shallow, because they were born this way, and did no hardwork to achieve their goals on their own. They should be loved for the values they have gained and morals that they work to follow. Similarly I think every person should alter themself to value hardwork and effort as opposed to applauding inherent intelligence. If every person follows this, society will gradually recover from the scars caused to the stigma of the so called not so inherently intelligent people, who in reality are in reality perhaps smarter than the stereotypes, if only they put in the hardwork.
Hardwork is humility and humility spreads knowledge.